Monday, November 06, 2006

Get the lawyers ready

This is not a good sign of things to come:

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The chief elections official in Missouri says her experience when she went to cast an absentee ballot was "very troubling."

Secretary of State Robin Carnahan says she was asked three times by an election worker to show a photo identification, even though a court ruling has struck down that requirement. Carnahan says the worker said she was instructed to ask for one.

The Missouri Supreme Court last month upheld a lower court's ruling overturning a law that would have required voters to show a photo ID.

Carnahan is a Democrat who has opposed Republican efforts to mandate a photo ID in Missouri. The Republican director of the St. Louis Election Board has assured her that on Election Day voters will not be pressed to present an ID.

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